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JOHN GILL, OF SOUTH DANBURY, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

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Patented Nov. 19, 1918.

Application filed January 26, 1918. Serial No. 213,952.

To all whom it may concern: 0

Be it known that I, JOHN GILL, a citizen of the United States, residing at South Danbury, in the county of Merrimack and State of New Hampshire, have invented new and useful Improvements in Lamp-Burners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in lamp burners, especially burners for use on kerosene lamps, the object of the invention being to provide simple means whereby the heat at the end of the burning wick Will be greatly intensified and the light produced will be white, intense and clear wlthout increasing the consumption of 011.

The invention consists of providing the dome of a lamp burner with a wire which is stretched across the dome in upper and lower leads, which leads are arranged parallel with the wick tube and to one side thereof, and which serve to become highly heated, by the flame, and thereby serve to promote the draft and to increase the brilliancy and the clearness of the light, the heat from the upper-lead of the wire being conducted through the wire also to the lower lead thereof so that the efliciency of the wire in promoting the draft through the lamp burner is very greatly increased.

With the above and other objects in view the invention consists in the construction and arrangement of devices hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is an elevation partly in section of a lamp burner provided with a heating Wire constructed and arranged in accordance with my invention;

Fig. 2 is a similar view of the same on a plane at right angles to that of Fig. 1.

In the drawing an ordinary lamp burner is shown, comprising the usual base 1, a gallery 2, wick tube 3, and hinged dome 4:, the dlome being provided with the usual wick s 0t 5.

In the embodiment of my invention I provide a heating wire 6, which is preferably a steel wire. The heating wire is first doubled and is passed through lower spaced openings 7 in opposite sides of the wick of the lamp dome, to provide lower leads 8 of the wire, which lower leads are on opposite sides parallel, with and spaced from the wick tube and are below the level of the upper end of the wick tube, as shown. The bight of the wire, indicated at 9, bears against one side of the dome. The wire is bent upwardly to form bights 10 which are arranged on the opposite sides of the dome from the bight 9, and the wire is then bent and extended across the dome through upper openings 11 provided in the dome to form upper wire leads 12 which are spaced above the lower leads 8 and are also parallel with the wick tube and are arranged substantially at the same level as the upper end of the wick tube. The ends 13 of the wire are then twisted together on the side of the dome opposite the bights 10, so that the wire is securely fastened to the dome. By this construction the upper and lower leads of the wire are integral, the wick is continuous, and heat from the upper leads which are the closest to the base of the flame, is also conducted to the lower leads.

When the lamp burner is in use, the heat from the flame at the top of the wick tube causes the upper leads of the wire to become red hot. Owing to the fact that the wire is continuous, the lower leads thereof also become heated, by conduction to a somewhat lower degree but still to such an extent as to cause the lower leads to coact efliciently with the upper leads of the wire, in heating the air as it passes upwardly through the burner and thereby greatly promoting the draft, and causing a thorough commingling of the heated air with the gases of combustion, so that the flame burns clearly and brilliantly, without smoke, and the efliciency of the burner as a producer of light is very greatly increased.

Having thus described my invention I claim:

A lamp burner provided With a Wick tube and a dome, thesaid dome being provided 5 with openings and a continuous Wire extended transversely across the dome, through the said openings thereof, and forming c011- tiuuous and connected upper and lower leads, the said upper and lower leads being Copies of this patent may be obtained; for five cents each, by addressing the on opposite sides of the Wick tube and par allel with and spaced therefroirl said upper leads being substantially level with the top of the Wick tube and being directly heated by the flame and said lower leads being heated by conduction from the upper leads. In testimony whereof I afliX my signature.

JOHN GILL.

Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D G. 

